Naval Projectile Factory, West Virginia – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Library of Congress record: Armor Plate Plant & Naval Projectile Factory site, Charleston, W. Va.
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Naval Projectile Factory, West Virginia
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In 1917, the Navy built a projectile factory on the Kanawha River near Charleston, West Virginia, as the United States prepared for and entered the First World War that April. The Kanawha Valley was already known for coal, salt brine and chemical works, and the river carried coal and manufactured goods toward the Ohio. The plant brought wartime construction crews, new jobs and rising rents to a valley that had long depended on mining and river trade. Residents of Charleston, the state capital, would have seen the site as a sign that federal war production had reached the Appalachian interior. The picture records the works in its early years, when the buildings were new and the surrounding ground was still being cleared and graded.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--West Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 973 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Armor Plate Plant & Naval Projectile Factory site, Charleston, W. Va. |
| Reference | WV Naval Projectile Factory |
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